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Post by rh226 on Dec 19, 2018 12:00:32 GMT
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Post by davebasing on Dec 20, 2018 15:31:32 GMT
Wonderful to see and hear her in the air again. First saw her as SAS at Heathrow back in 1968 then as MK Cargo at Lasham in 1979. Of the 790 different frames that have so far carried me aloft, the only DC8 freighter to do so was G-BTAC which I graphed at Stansted back in 1978. Spent some time in Sudan back in 1986 helping with the setting up of the local CAA, where I graphed Trans Arabian freighter ST-AJD in the Khartoum sunshine. Just for the sheer memory here are two of the more unusual of the DC8s that I have graphed over the years. N49AJ at Mojave in 1990 in camo for a film (the name of which I can’t remember). I first graphed her (blurringly) at Heathrow as PP-PDS on Panair do Brasil’s inaugural DC8 service in April 1961 replacing the previously operated DC6s. And the US Navy’s only DC8 (163050 an EC24, ex United) displayed on celebrity row at Davis Monthan on an unusually cloudy day in 2000. It did actually visit the UK at least once, Lossiemouth 1992.  78-ak by dave tompkins, on Flickr  86-ex by dave tompkins, on Flickr  90-zd by dave tompkins, on Flickr  00-fn by dave tompkins, on Flickr |
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Post by rh226 on Dec 20, 2018 19:42:14 GMT
Hi Dave,
Can't honestly remember if I did see her as SAS, but I certainly remember Panair's PP-PDS and PP-PEA. Never did see PP-PDT as it came to grief between my 1st and 2nd visits to Heathrow in 1962.
Regarding the EC-24, in addition to visiting Lossiemouth in March 1992, it also visited Machrihanish in 1988 and St. Mawgan in May 1994.
Cheers,
Bob |
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